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    Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 02:32
If you were god and created the known universe and all humans wouldn't you atleast make it so that all acknowledge your existance and what you have done? Wouldn't you make yourself known from the beginning and not thousands of years later?
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  Quote pekau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 02:38

You could prove anything with the word "if". What if I was a bloodthirsty vampire? Then you would be dead.

We cannot understand how God thinks.  Since He is the perfect being, it should be considered that He must have some kind of reason that our 3 pound brain cannot figure out. Just go to the philosophy forum and you will see tons of religious arguments. Don't bother making more. We have enoughLOL
     
   
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  Quote Balaam Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 04:04
Would you care to answer the questions pekau?
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  Quote TheMysticNomad Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 05:49

Pekau has a point.  After all, how many times did God play a role in actual historical events?  Let's try to focus on the subject at hand, shall we?

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  Quote Aelfgifu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 06:38
As an Atheist, I would not believe in me... That would cause a tricky existential problem...

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 07:51
If you forced them to acknowledge your existence, as a supreme being, then they would all follow you and it really defeats the whole point of free will.
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  Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 08:06

I'd tell nobody and live among the people, think of the ego trip LOL

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 08:26
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I'd tell nobody and live among the people, think of the ego trip LOL



I'm sure there's a movie that goes something like that LOL
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  Quote JanusRook Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 08:42

Wouldn't you make yourself known from the beginning and not thousands of years later?


But remember, your God. You don't have a "convenient" human timeframe to work with, you have all of eternity. So whose to say after creation you decide to stretch and yawn and when you get back to everything you discover 10 billion years have past....talk about one of those 'Oh crap! 'moments.

I believe if I was God, I wouldn't need other people to tell me who I was.

Edit: Or...maybe I'd just do stuff to mess with peoples heads, like create the duck-billed platypus.


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  Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 09:04
Ok, there's definetely two allusions to 'Dogma',  which I thought was one of the most ridiculous and yet brilliant films i've ever seen.
 
I think the question is impossible to answer really, kinda like trying to imagine 'nothing', you're going to end up imagining yourself imagining nothing, because you  know that the nothing cannot be concieved within the scope of our 3 pound brain, as there had to be something there to create the instrument you use to attempt to imagine the nothing that you are attempting to imagine. Succinct stuff I know!
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 11:37
Originally posted by Balaam

If you were god and created the known universe and all humans wouldn't you atleast make it so that all acknowledge your existance and what you have done? Wouldn't you make yourself known from the beginning and not thousands of years later?
 
Im agnostic which is why I would prefer not to become involved in such hypothetical silly meaningless debates which will never achieve a correct answer.
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  Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 11:41

Don't post then.

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 11:55
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Don't post then.

 
Jee, I didnt see that one coming! Im not getting involved in the actual debate, Im stating my believe and why I think such a debate is pointless, Where else Im I supposed to express this believe except in the actual topic with the debate? Maybe you'd prefer if I started up a new topic giving out about this topic! I dont think so.
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  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 14:22
Originally posted by Aelfgifu

As an Atheist, I would not believe in me... That would cause a tricky existential problem...
 
To Paraphrase Groucho, I wouldn't want to worship any god that that would have me as a worshipper.
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  Quote Spartakus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 14:25
If i was a God,i would create a similar to the Middle Earth world for people to live.

Edited by Spartakus - 14-Feb-2007 at 14:25
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  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 14:55
The fact the world isn't a 24/7 porn movie set proves god isn't a man.
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  Quote JanusRook Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 15:34

The fact the world isn't a 24/7 porn movie set proves god isn't a man.


And the fact that clothing stores close proves god isn't a woman.

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  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 22:56
So empirically we arrive at the conclusion, Ladyboy.


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  Quote eaglecap Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-Feb-2007 at 13:32
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  Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-Feb-2007 at 19:09
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Don't post then.

 
Jee, I didnt see that one coming! Im not getting involved in the actual debate, Im stating my believe and why I think such a debate is pointless, Where else Im I supposed to express this believe except in the actual topic with the debate? Maybe you'd prefer if I started up a new topic giving out about this topic! I dont think so.
 
 
 
To be blunt, nobody cares if you think the debate is pointless, show some respect to the others who have engaged in the discussion and don't post. In your absence all shall be aware of your opinion on the topic. Non-existent.
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